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Security & Crypto

The basics of keeping data safe: ciphers, hashing, passwords, encoding, and everyday online safety, with hands-on Python.

18 lessons about 6 hours Medium
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What this course covers

  1. What is Cybersecurity?
  2. Caesar Cipher: Secret Messages
  3. Substitution Ciphers: Letter Mapping
  4. XOR Cipher
  5. Encoding is NOT Encryption
  6. Hashing: Fingerprints for Data
  7. The Magic One-Way Door: How Apps Check Your Password Without Knowing It
  8. Passwords: Strong, Salted, Hashed
  9. Strong Random Passwords
  10. Why Password Length Matters
  11. Public-Key Cryptography
  12. HTTPS & TLS
  13. Two-Factor Authentication & TOTP
  14. Input Validation: Your First Line of Defense
  15. SQL Injection
  16. Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
  17. CSRF: Forging Requests
  18. Online Safety: Be a Smart User

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